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buki_12593
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Dec 30, 2007

The default HTTP monitor seems to be incorrectly defined

The default HTTP monitor seems to be incorrectly defined – instead of defining the “send string” properly (I.E., “GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n”), it is defined as “GET /”.     This approach does not work ...
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VictorC
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Mar 20, 2009
Hi, I am running into the same problem with a lighttpd server. In my telnet test I can run the following and it returns fine: 

 
 GET / HTTP/1.1 
 Host: hostname 
 Connection: Close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

Content-Length: 5637

 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

 

Connection: close

 

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:53:28 GMT

 

Server: lighttpd/1.4.21

However when I created a custom http monitor with the following, it doesn't work: 

GET / HTTP/1.1\n Host: hostname\n Connection: Close\n

Based on the solution SOL3224, I tried taking out 'hostname' in the monitor but it doesn't help. (Even though typing anything for hostname in telnet is fine). Tried messing with the syntax and no luck. Any help would be great. I am using a LTM 1500 BIG-IP 9.3.0 Build 178.5 straight out of the box.

Thanks.